Tom Ewing
@tomewing.bsky.social
Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.com
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OH CWIPES! #Discourse2000 is heading for the Cursed Earth, but first we have to discuss the first ever Judge Dredd spin-off strip, WALTER THE WOBOT: FWIEND OF DREDD. Can #2000AD handle single page gag strips, and does Dredd need supporting characters? Find out!
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Watched THE ASH TREE (1975) - might be the best ghost story for Christmas yet, I love how dense and uncompromising the constant time slippage is, making for a really eerie vibe
December 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Watched THE ASH TREE (1975) - might be the best ghost story for Christmas yet, I love how dense and uncompromising the constant time slippage is, making for a really eerie vibe
Gene Wolfe’s Latro series, you would need the budget because to reflect Latro’s perception of the world every actor apart from him would be recast every episode
OK, less contentious post:
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
December 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Gene Wolfe’s Latro series, you would need the budget because to reflect Latro’s perception of the world every actor apart from him would be recast every episode
Didn’t ask for any books this year cos I still haven’t read loads of last year’s but I DID get DVD box sets of Pressburger & Powell and Jean-Paul Belmondo films which will help in future Project Boss Baby style antics!
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Didn’t ask for any books this year cos I still haven’t read loads of last year’s but I DID get DVD box sets of Pressburger & Powell and Jean-Paul Belmondo films which will help in future Project Boss Baby style antics!
My kid got this for Christmas, I have to admire how hardcore it is with zero LOTR or Hobbit scenes and FIVE for Beren And Luthien
December 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
My kid got this for Christmas, I have to admire how hardcore it is with zero LOTR or Hobbit scenes and FIVE for Beren And Luthien
The realisation that it’s not just me, Monopoly is just not a good game was an important one to me!
Monopoly might be a bad game, but you’re making it much worse by playing it wrong.
A Christmas declaration of war, from me, in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
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A Christmas declaration of war, from me, in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
We've all been playing Monopoly wrong
The board game shouldn't go on forever if you stick to the real rules
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The realisation that it’s not just me, Monopoly is just not a good game was an important one to me!
December 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Presents wrapped, drummer boy drummed, compliments of the season to one and all 🎄🎄🎄
Got some kind of virus which might mean postponing Christmas dinner to Boxing Day but no so called bug can prevent the annual ritual of wrapping the presents to the 42 minute version of Little Drummer Boy
youtu.be/x0US4KqCMKM?...
youtu.be/x0US4KqCMKM?...
Little Drummer Boy
YouTube video by Lindstrøm - Topic
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December 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Presents wrapped, drummer boy drummed, compliments of the season to one and all 🎄🎄🎄
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Flight home's been delayed two hours so I had to make something important
December 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Flight home's been delayed two hours so I had to make something important
Got some kind of virus which might mean postponing Christmas dinner to Boxing Day but no so called bug can prevent the annual ritual of wrapping the presents to the 42 minute version of Little Drummer Boy
youtu.be/x0US4KqCMKM?...
youtu.be/x0US4KqCMKM?...
Little Drummer Boy
YouTube video by Lindstrøm - Topic
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Got some kind of virus which might mean postponing Christmas dinner to Boxing Day but no so called bug can prevent the annual ritual of wrapping the presents to the 42 minute version of Little Drummer Boy
youtu.be/x0US4KqCMKM?...
youtu.be/x0US4KqCMKM?...
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Luke 2:1 "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed."
Morgan McSweeney: "Focus groups are going to fucking hate this"
Morgan McSweeney: "Focus groups are going to fucking hate this"
December 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Luke 2:1 "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed."
Morgan McSweeney: "Focus groups are going to fucking hate this"
Morgan McSweeney: "Focus groups are going to fucking hate this"
That was good, I thought! Didn’t necessarily go where I was expecting but laid some good foundations for the central relationship in S2 (tho you never know with this show)
Watching the season finale of PLURIBUS which is proving that the “never compromise” bit of Watchmen would have been a lot funnier with a translation app involved
December 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
That was good, I thought! Didn’t necessarily go where I was expecting but laid some good foundations for the central relationship in S2 (tho you never know with this show)
Watching the season finale of PLURIBUS which is proving that the “never compromise” bit of Watchmen would have been a lot funnier with a translation app involved
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Watching the season finale of PLURIBUS which is proving that the “never compromise” bit of Watchmen would have been a lot funnier with a translation app involved
Will I Am is a funny case in that he’s basically a pop star who really loves the idea of talking business speak in the way other wealthy pop stars enjoy racing yachts or running trout farms, saying this kind of stuff is his main hobby as far as I can tell
December 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Will I Am is a funny case in that he’s basically a pop star who really loves the idea of talking business speak in the way other wealthy pop stars enjoy racing yachts or running trout farms, saying this kind of stuff is his main hobby as far as I can tell
I have already outdone will I am simply by dividing my day into twenty *five* hours to grind in
The Grammy Award–winning artist turned tech entrepreneur advises Gen Zers to forget about work-life balance if they want to emulate his success. trib.al/RGSO9CT
Will.i.am grinds from 5-to-9 after his 9-to-5—because work-life balance is for people 'working on someone else’s dream' and not for visionaries | Fortune
Will.i.am tells Gen Z to ditch work-life balance: ‘Those words don’t compute for the materializers’
trib.al
December 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I have already outdone will I am simply by dividing my day into twenty *five* hours to grind in
Watched THE TREASURE OF ABBOTT THOMAS (1974) - “is this the one with the toad?” I asked myself and YES! it’s the one with the toad (here rather more amorphous). Great central performance of a rather smug rationalist laid low, and a well-done ecclesiastical mystery
December 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Watched THE TREASURE OF ABBOTT THOMAS (1974) - “is this the one with the toad?” I asked myself and YES! it’s the one with the toad (here rather more amorphous). Great central performance of a rather smug rationalist laid low, and a well-done ecclesiastical mystery
This is very true however I am smarter than Colony Earth
The paragraph about TV Tropes is spot on. I can't bear that approach to criticism where the main aim seems to be asserting superiority to the work. People who'll identify an influence and be like "Ah, rumbled!" episodes.ghost.io/art-criticis...
You are not smarter than the art you critique
Here's my best advice for young critics: Don't presume you know better.
episodes.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is very true however I am smarter than Colony Earth
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I’ve been a Mariah stan since her Cribs appearance, and she keeps on giving.
August 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I’ve been a Mariah stan since her Cribs appearance, and she keeps on giving.
Finally hearing some of the new Lily Allen tracks and it reminds me a bit of The Streets?
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Finally hearing some of the new Lily Allen tracks and it reminds me a bit of The Streets?
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I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
Kinda discouraging to spend ages working on a fun year end music poll with tons of new discoveries and immediately get a quote skeet going "oh I won't be voting in this I've only heard of 5 of them", sorry I forgot the sole purpose of the internet was to remind you of stuff you already knew
December 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Kinda discouraging to spend ages working on a fun year end music poll with tons of new discoveries and immediately get a quote skeet going "oh I won't be voting in this I've only heard of 5 of them", sorry I forgot the sole purpose of the internet was to remind you of stuff you already knew
Chris Rea - Josephine [La Version Francaise]
YouTube video by LeonfromAthens “Leo”
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December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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He looks like an old school Mancunian who never got over the Hacienda closing.
Hereunder lies the above who up below,
So hourly died that he lived on till now.
First Love, 1946
Samuel Beckett 13/04/1906-22/12/1989
So hourly died that he lived on till now.
First Love, 1946
Samuel Beckett 13/04/1906-22/12/1989
December 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
He looks like an old school Mancunian who never got over the Hacienda closing.
When I worked in the second hand bookshop this was the only CD we had permanently on hand, Terry on the cover like a benign presiding spirit. We all loved it, the customers tended to hate it, so it was very handy for days when we had a ton of new stock to price up or markdowns to do
Bought OTD in 1970: ground breaking systems/ minimal/ trance classic. One side is up and bubbly, the other A psychotropic drone. The vortex awaits - dive in
December 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
When I worked in the second hand bookshop this was the only CD we had permanently on hand, Terry on the cover like a benign presiding spirit. We all loved it, the customers tended to hate it, so it was very handy for days when we had a ton of new stock to price up or markdowns to do
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NIGEL FARAGE STOLE MY SATSUMAS
2. New customs rules due to the UK now being outside of the EU single market.
The extra time, effort, paperwork, and risk of importing such perishable low value fruit means that almost all satsumas get sent to the easily accessible markets inside the EU.
The extra time, effort, paperwork, and risk of importing such perishable low value fruit means that almost all satsumas get sent to the easily accessible markets inside the EU.
December 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
NIGEL FARAGE STOLE MY SATSUMAS
